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Posted on August 11 at 3:13 a.m.
"John's dead for this election cycle"
Too bad that doesn't refer to the John who cheated on his wife for 9 months and then dumped her because she was disfigured in an accident and he needed a new Barbie doll, especially one who had lots and lots and lots and lots of money.
Posted on August 11 at 12:21 a.m.
"In an interview peppered with cringe-causing lines, his self-justifying claim that, after all, his wifes' cancer was in remission at the time he decided to have an affair"
That's a lie; Edwards explicitly stated that neither that or anything else was an excuse. This godawful ad-hominem-laced rant ("Mr. Breck Boy"?) loses my respect for you, Mr. Roberts.
Posted on July 17 at 11:06 p.m.
Kevin O'Connor not only fantasizes "liberal judges" with powers they don't have, but hopes their family members die. And the same for public defenders, who have only themselves to blame for ... doing their job?
If being liberal means not being a vicious hateful ignorant nasty evil cowardly right winger who wants to kill kill kill, then I'm proud to be a liberal.
Posted on June 28 at 2:32 a.m.
"From a strictly legal standpoint, all the constitution says is that Congress shall pass no law respecting the establishment of a religion. I don't know if that applies to individual states one way or the other."
Unfortunately, most Americans know very little about their rights, which may have something to do with why they don't take a stand when those rights are whittled (or downright chopped, of late) away.
The 14th amendment extended federal protections of civil rights to the state level: "...No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws...."
Posted on June 28 at 2:02 a.m.
P.S. Although they don't mention it in their letter, Ross and Smith promote, in their book and elsewhere, the distinctly minority and ahistorical notion that Jefferson's views on church and state were "idiosyncratic", but nothing could be further from the truth. See http://www.religioustolerance.org/amend_... which notes that "The roots of the First Amendment can be traced to a bill written by Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) in 1777 and proposed to the Virginia Legislature in 1779. It guaranteed freedom of (and from) religion. After an impassioned speech by James Madison, and after some amendments, it became law on 1786-JAN-16."
Ross and Smith aren't qualified or reliable sources, being neither historical scholars nor lacking in ideology. See, e.g., http://www.taraross.com/bio.asp
Posted on June 28 at 1:27 a.m.
"the Supreme Court decided to insert a requirement of “separation between church and state” into the Constitution — a requirement that did not exist at the founding."
This statement is false and the authors know that it is false. The historical record is clear on the precedents and the meaning of the First Amendment, which is consistent with that phrase, and in 1802, Thomas Jefferson, acting in his official capacity as President of the United States, wrote a carefully vetted letter to the Danbury Baptists, who were concerned about their state government encroaching on their religious freedom, assuring them that there was a "wall of separation" that protected them. President Thomas Jefferson, not the Supreme Court. Details can be found at www.usconstitution.net/jeffwall.html
Ross and Smith should be ashamed of their sin of prevarication.
Posted on June 28 at 1:10 a.m.
Actually, Binky, your approach is the same as Wendy's and Travis's: just toss out personal attacks without any substantiation. I suppose you think that "Citizen McCaw" was made by lawyers since, instead of just flashing "She's a delusional liar" on the screen, it spent 85 minutes presenting evidence.
Ideally, all the newspapers that received the letter will assign it to reporters who will investigate, gather facts, and report them, highlighting the numerous omissions, distortions, and fabrications in McCaw's letter ... echoes of Susan Paterno's "Santa Barbara Smackdown" all across the land.
Well, one can dream.
Posted on June 18 at 12:26 a.m.
More on John McCain, from Matt Welch, Editor-in-chief of the libertarian Reason Magazine:
http://www.democracynow.org/2008/2/4/the...
"He finished near the bottom of his class, 894th out of 899 at the Naval Academy in Annapolis. And he was a real sort of maverick in the kind of Top Gun way, always getting into trouble, sneaking off to drink beer and smoke cigarettes and date strippers, and had a pretty colorful kind of straining-at-the-leash type of life, because he knew he didn’t really have a choice but to fulfill his sort of family’s destiny.
And he became a flyboy in the Navy and was involved in one of the worst—and in fact, I think the worst—Navy sort of tragedy after World War II, which was the Forrestal fire in Vietnam, which killed 130-plus men. He tumbled off the nose of his airplane as it was sort of exploding on the deck of this aircraft carrier in Vietnam. And then on his—I believe his fifth mission was flying over Vietnam on a—Hanoi on a bombing run and was shot out of the sky and, of course, became a prisoner of war for five-and-a-half years, where he, you know, withstood torture with great bravery and distinction. He eventually cracked, like most prisoners of war do under the duress, and taped some statements, you know, disparaging his country and apologizing for his crimes, but stuck it out and then came back to the US in ’73 and became the Navy liaison to the Senate and eventually started his political career in 1982. ... He started in Congress. He humorously—he had divorced his first wife, married a young woman named Cindy—Cindy McCain now, Cindy Hensley. Her father was—owned the exclusive beer distributorship for Budweiser in Maricopa County in Arizona, and so was—had a lot of money. And he was shopping around basically for a congressional seat. On the day that Congressman John Rhodes announced that he was resigning—or actually even before he announced, but on the day that he decided that he was resigning from his seat, John told Cindy, you know, buy a house in the district. So he kind of moved to Arizona with the explicit idea that he would immediately run for Congress and then use that as a springboard to run for the Senate seat when Barry Goldwater retired in 1986.
And what’s very little sort of understood—one of many things that’s little understood about John McCain is that from the beginning he was spending crazy amounts of money. You know, he’s this champion of campaign finance, but he wildly outspent his opponents in Arizona time and time again, especially at the beginning of his career, with his father-in-law’s money, with money from Charles Keating and money from other people, and built up this political career and ended up going to the Senate and becoming the maverick we all know and love. "
etc.
Posted on June 18 at 12:20 a.m.
Watch John McCain on video at http://therealmccain.com/
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